Nanni Moretti

Italian screenwriter, film director, and actor (born 1953)

7.03body-of-work score · ranked #142 of 2631 directors · 6 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
August 19, 1953 · Bruneck
Nationality
Italy
Work
film director, actor, screenwriter, film editor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Nanni Moretti
Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    The Son's RoomLa stanza del figlioMust-See #222

    2001 · Italy / France · drama

    Palme d'Or winner 2001 · Sarris's annual top 10 2002 #2 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2001 #9

    2.595 citations
  2. 2

    1993 · Italy / France · drama, comedy

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1994 #1 · Kehr's annual top 10 1994 #null

    1.142 citations
  3. 3
    Red Wood PigeonPalombella rossa

    1989 · Italy / France · comedy, drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1989 #1

    1.001 citation
  4. 4
    We Have a PopeHabemus Papam

    2011 · France / Italy · drama, comedy

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2011 #1

    1.001 citation
  5. 5
    My MotherMia madre

    2015 · Italy / France · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2015 #1

    1.001 citation
  6. 6
    The Mass Is EndedLa messa è finita

    1985 · Italy · comedy

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1987 #9

    0.301 citation

Complete filmography

All 24 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1973La sconfitta
  • 1973Pâté de bourgeois
  • 1974Come parli, frate?
  • 1976I Am Self Sufficient
  • 1978Ecce bombo
  • 1981Sogni d'oro
  • 1984Bianca
  • 1985The Mass Is Ended
  • 1989Red Wood Pigeon
  • 1990The Thing
  • 1993Caro diario
  • 1994The Only Country in the World
  • 1996Opening Day of Close-Up
  • 1998April
  • 2001The Son's Room
  • 2002The Last Customer
  • 2003Anguish Cry of Predator Bird
  • 2006The Caiman
  • 2007To Each His Own Cinema
  • 2011We Have a Pope
  • 2015My Mother
  • 2018Santiago, Italy
  • 2021Tre piani
  • 2023A Brighter Tomorrow